„Miejsce” (i „obraz”) w poetyce późnego klasycyzmu

This paper demonstrates how space and spatial relations where conceptualized in the Polish poetics of the early nineteenth century. The author concentrates mainly on different uses of the term “place” in theoretical treaties of the period. Comparing how this term is used in reference to drama and to other genres which represent the epoch leads to the following conclusion. Namely, in literary criticism of the times the concept of literature understood as the practice of “painting with words” was in fact a substitute for the concept of literature as spatiotemporal structure.